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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress (Call Number Z6026.17 U45 1981) serves as a guide to all Sanborn Maps. It is divided into sections alphabetically by state. Some territories and Mexico are covered.

Sanborn Maps are available in these formats: physical maps, CD-Rom, online, and microfilm. To discover what towns and cities are represented on microfilm, please check out the indexes below.

Maps of Mankato from 1908 are in the General Map Cases (Call Number G4144.M2G475 1908 .S3)
CD-Rom of Minnesota Sanborn Maps prior to 1952 (Call Number G4141.G475 2000 S26)

Sanborn Maps of Minnesota This link opens in a new window
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970

Index to Iowa Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, prior to 1950 (Microfilm)
Index to Minnesota Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, prior to 1950 (Microfilm)
Index to Minnesota Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, revised 1946-1969 (Microfilm)
Index to North Dakota Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, prior to 1950 (Microfilm)
Index to South Dakota Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, prior to 1950 (Microfilm)
Index to Wisconsin Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, prior to 1950 (Microfilm)

Library of Congress Digital Sanborn Maps in Minnesota
Hennepin County Library Digital Sanborn Maps of Minneapolis

Sidwell Maps of Blue Earth

This fourteen volume set of Blue Earth County was plotted in 2006. An index helps to quickly find the area of interest.